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[-] 0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Actually BetaMax is a superior standard, TV stations used it... but, it was A LOT more expensive. Sony thought that just being superior was gonna win over the standards war.

[-] void@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Actually no.

The professional format is Betacam, and incompatible with Betamax.

Betamax can be superior to VHS, but that’s easy if you just waste a lot of tape. If you put the formats on equal footing the difference is negligible: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_oJs8-I9WtA

Being theoretically better from a purely technical perspective doesn’t make something „superior“. VHS took over because the whole package was superior.

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